How Fatally The Entire Want Of Humor

What Sense Of Superiority It Gives One To Escape Reading Some Book Which Every One Else Is Reading.

I Make It A Rule Always To Believe Compliments Implicitly For Five Minutes, And To Simmer Gently For Twenty More.

How Heroic To Be Able To Suppress One's Vanity To The Extent Of Confessing That The Game Is Too Hard.

It Is An Immense Loss To Have All Robust And Sustaining Expletives Refined Away From One! At. Moments Of Trial Refinement Is A Feeble Reed To Lean Upon.

It Is So Comic To Hear Oneself Called Old, Even At Ninety I Suppose!